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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator explore after she cannot go to sleep in "The Diary"?

2. What is the title of the first section of the book?

3. When did Zane publish her first book?

4. Who is Clarence's telegram from?

5. In "Nervous" what does SHE prohibit the boy in the library from doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does SHE leave the boy in the library in "Nervous"?

2. How does "Be My Valentine" end?

3. What happens as a result of Rob and Amber's misdialed phone conversation in "Wrong Number"?

4. What does the narrator come to realize in "The Diary"?

5. Describe the setting of "The Diary".

6. Describe what happens to Mira before she marries her husband in "The Bachelorette Party".

7. What happens in "Animal Farm"?

8. What does the author of "If You Were Here Right Now" tell her addressee?

9. Describe the couple in "Dinner At Eight"s romance and lust.

10. Describe the narrator and Norman's relationship in "The Godfather".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the bandit in "The Pussy Bandit" and the irony in that all the women want the bandit to come and perform cunnilingus on them, yet traditionally, women fear men who come into their rooms to fulfill sexual desires.

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss how Zane disproves the notion that men will be uninterested in a woman if they are sexually intimate upon first meeting. Which stories in "the Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" support this idea and which do not?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how the stories in"The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" parallel relationships in that they both progress gradually from mild and socially acceptable content to more extreme and less socially acceptable content. Consider the first story "First Night" in comparison to the last, "Apha Phi Fuckem- The Convention"

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